With the Bucks only a half game back of the New York Knicks for the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference playoff hunt, confidently declare your allegiance for the Bucks with the State Farm Nation, now live on Facebook as they attempt to inch closer, hosting the Boston Celtics tomorrow night!

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At Milwaukee, Ersan Ilyasova scored on a tip-in with 2.2 seconds left as Milwaukee handed Washington its fifth consecutive defeat, as the Bucks won 119-118.

Mike Dunleavy scored a season-high 28 points for the Bucks, who snapped a six-game losing streak at home.

Brandon Jennings took an inbounds pass with 6.8 seconds left and drove left of the lane, attempting a short jumper. It bounced off the rim, but Ilyasova had position and tipped in the miss for the winning points.

Roger Mason Jr. then received an inbounds pass on the baseline for Washington but was called for traveling with 1 second to go without getting off a shot.

Next: Wednesday at home vs. New Orleans Hornets

Next: Friday at Cleveland Cavaliers

UPDATE: Bogut is out 8-12 weeks after an MRI came back revealing a fractured left ankle.

Bucks center Andrew Bogut sprained his left ankle in last night’s 105-99 win over the Rockets in Houston.

He logged less than ten minutes and registered three points, four rebounds, and three blocked shots.

The best-case scenario would be a severely sprained ankle, but even that would be likely to sideline Bogut for a week or more.

“Once we know what the diagnosis is, we’ll know how to treat it,” Bogut said. “But it’s going to be ice-massage, ice-massage, ice-massage.

“I’m not optimistic. With my history of unlucky injuries I’m hoping this one can do me a favor and (go away). Most of my injuries are unfortunate things and this goes in the same boat as that. It’s frustrating.”

Bogut has already missed five games this season.

“Right now we should really be 3-0,” Brandon Jennings said. “We were up at halftime against Charlotte, and we lost a lead. And tonight we were up (24) at half and let a team come back. That is something we really need to focus on, especially going on a West Coast road trip. On the road in hostile environments you have got to be able to contain the lead and take over.”

Jennings led the Bucks with 22 points — 15 of which came in the second half.

The electrifying point guard has scored 22, 24 and 22 points in three games this season.

“He has been very efficient,” Bucks coach Scott Skiles said. “He is doing a good job in the first half of the games of moving the ball around and seeing people and kind of taking his scoring opportunities as they come. And then as the game has gone on he’s gotten a little more aggressive, especially when we’ve struggled a little bit in those stretches.

“That’s what the good players do.”

Andrew Bogut notched 13 points and 15 rebounds for his first double-double of the season.

Milwaukee was up on the Wizards 65-41 at halftime.

Next Game: Monday January 2 at Denver Nuggets, 8 CT.

The Milwaukee Bucks are still in the market for a backup center and Joel Przybilla appears to be their main target.

Bill Duffy, Przybilla’s agent, attended the Bucks-Minnesota Timberwolves game Tuesday night at the Bradley Center.

Afterward, Duffy told The Journal Times that the Bucks are still pursuing his client.

“They made it clear how much they want him,” Duffy said. “I think it would be a good fit.”

The 31-year old Przybilla is drawing interest from several teams, including the Los Angeles Clippers and Miami Heat, according to league sources.

The former Minnesota Golden Gopher standout played in only 36 games last season — starting nine with Portland.

He was traded from the Trail Blazers to the Charlotte Bobcats last February in a deal that involved Gerald Wallace.

The 7-foot-1, 245-pound center was drafted by the Houston Rockets ninth overall in 2000 and then shipped to Milwaukee, where he played his first three-plus seasons in the NBA.

Behind starting center Andrew Bogut, the Bucks do not have a true center on their current roster.

Second-year man Larry Sanders, who’s a shot-blocking presence at 6-foot-11, is their only other legitimate option to play the position behind Bogut.

Drew Gooden of the Milwaukee Bucks has been suspended one game without pay for his Flagrant Foul Two against Gerald Henderson of the Charlotte Bobcats, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President Basketball Operations.

The incident, in which Gooden made excessive contact with the head of Henderson, occurred with 27.3 seconds remaining in the third quarter of the Bucks 96-95 loss to the Bobcats on Monday.

Gooden will serve his suspension tonight when the Bucks host the Minnesota Timberwolves in their home opener.